A stock has an expected return of 6% and an annualized return standard deviation (i.e., annual volatility)
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Question:
A stock has an expected return of 6% and an annualized return standard deviation
(i.e., annual volatility) of 14%. Assuming the stock's returns are normally
distributed, and ignoring compounding, what is the stock's 4-year VaR(5%) using a
single-tail test? [Note: you may assume +/- 1.65 standard deviations covers 90% and
+/- 2 standard deviations covers 95% of the full distribution, respectively.]
A. -32%
B. -28%
C. -25%
D. -20.5%
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